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CONTENTS

CONSUETUDINES CORBEIENSES[41]

                                     
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A  DIRECTIVES, OR BRIEFS, OF ADALHARD  103 
I. PREBENDS  103 
II. THE POORHOUSE  105 
III. THE GRAIN SUPPLY  106 
IV. THIS IS THE MANAGEMENT OF THE GARDENS  108 
V. THE MANAGEMENT OF THE REFECTORY OR BROTHERS' KITCHEN  109 
VI. THE GATE AND TITHES  111 
VII. THE NUMBER AND ALLOTMENT OF SWINE  118 
VIII. FINALLY, THE BROTHERS' VESTRY  120 
B  RUBRICS OF THE ABBOT, DOM ADALHARD, WITH RESPECT TO INSTRUCTIONS
IN CONGREGATION 		 121 
C  FRAGMENTS OF CHAPTERS  123 
I. THE CANONICAL HOURS 
II. THE SILENCE TO BE MAINTAINED IN DORMITORY & WARMING-ROOM 
D  ADDENDA 
I. THE CHARTER OF LOUIS THE PIOUS at Aachen, A.D. 815  124 
II. THE CONSTITUTION OF ANSEGIS, ABBOT OF FONTANELLA, A.D. 823-833  125 
III. A GENEALOGY: THE CAROLINGIAN KINGS & ADALHARD'S FAMILY  127 
IV. PASCHASIUS RATPERTUS: ON THE TOMB OF ABBOT ADALHARD OF CORBIE  128 
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[ILLUSTRATION]

531. SEAL OF LOUIS THE PIOUS (9TH CENT.)

BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE, PARIS, CABINET DES MEDAILLES

actual size: 38 mm in length

Seals (SIGNA or SIGILLA) were used in antiquity to impress wax or clay on
documents or boundles to assure classification or privacy; but among illiterate
Merovingian sovereigns seals replaced signatures as authentication of public
documents. The Carolingians, IN RENOVATIONE IMPERII, revived a Roman
custom of using a symbolic effigy—not a portrait of the reigning sovereign—
on the seal. To it they added the sovereign's name and title. Thus, the image
on the seal of the Emperor Louis I is the bust of a Roman, evidently Commodus
(see H. Bresslau, Handbuch II2, 550, 559). Charlemagne and successors
also used monograms and BULLAE together with or as a substitute for seals.
The inscription surround of the laurel-crowned bust on this seal reads:
XPE PROTEGE HLODOVVICUM IMPERATORE ("Christ guard Louis the
Emperor").
 
[41]

In Corpus Consuetudinum Monasticarum, ed. Semmler, I (1963). 364-418.

[42]

Notations of page and subsection numbers which appear in italics in the left and right margins
throughout the following translation refer to corresponding sections in Semmler.

Material enclosed <in angles> indicates editorial additions which do not appear in the Latin texts.

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